Kodama Kanazawa

Rafaël Rozendaal’s Looking at Something powered by EDION

Around 2000, Rafaël Rozendaal started posting his clear, graphic moving images online, seemingly inspired by the internet’s realm of infinite space and time. The animations that spring up like fountains, generated in real-time by code, are unlimited in their meaning to a specific region or age group but appear as universal images, bringing unfamiliar surprises and meditative sensations to the viewer.

Rozendaal’s work, which appears on any type of screen from computer screens to tablets to smartphones to monitors, is an apt example of his artistic concept of constantly being present and appearing in various times and places, much “like gas or liquid,” as he describes it himself. This idea is also reflected in his diverse range of activities, including physical lenticular paintings begun in the 2010s and haiku, which is the art of words.

Rozendaal is also a conceptual artist who has been thinking about the ownership of digital works long before they became widely known as NFTs. The works published on his domain are accessible to anyone, even after being sold and their ownership decided. The infinite space and time expressed in the works are spread around the world and delivered right to those who enjoy art.

At Art Collaboration Kyoto, Rozendaal’s website and NFT works will appear in an atmosphere evocative of the ordinary spaces in which we spend our daily lives. Through this installation, Rozendaal is telling us that art is always there, as long as we are aware of it.
(Text by Kanazawa Kodama)

Artist: Rafaël Rozendaal
Curator: Code-a-Machine (Kanazawa Kodama + Masui Shinichiro)
Lead Partner: EDION Corporation
Official Partner: Maruni Wood Industry Inc.
Special Cooperation: Takuro Someya Contemporary Art
Production: Twelve Inc.
Monitor provided by EDION Corporation, Sony Consumer Sales (Japan) Inc.